AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

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AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5700 XT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1499MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5700 XT +183%

7.675 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5700 XT

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Aug 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1243 MHz

Base Clock

-

1499 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

24

2560

Shading Units

1536

160

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

95.94 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

239.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

15.35 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.675 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

479.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 10 XTA

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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